Medicine

A clinical trial is testing whether an existing drug could benefit patients with Alzheimer’s disease, in hopes of making symptom-improving medication more accessible for people experiencing mild cognitive impairment.

After spending nearly a year at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, conjoined twins Amari and Javar Ruffin were successfully separated.

Forty years after the Hatch-Waxman Act created a market for affordable generic versions of prescription medications, it is struggling with persistent shortages.

Their surprising discovery revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation as the microRNAs are proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function.

Is Novo Nordisk helping Americans save taxpayer money or ripping them off? The company’s CEO is scheduled to testify Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

Texas Christian University’s new medical school building features unique technology for the next generation of physicians– some of it, you can’t find anywhere else in the Lone Star State.

The late-stage trial on tirzepatide also found that patients experienced sustained weight loss over the roughly three-year treatment period.

A grant from Bloomberg, Uplift Charter Schools and Baylor Scott and White have collaborated to establish a school dedicated to. training and certifying urban students for careers in the medical field

For some students at Uplift Schools in Dallas, their first day included a whole new way of training kids for the future. NBC 5 education reporter Wayne Carter is in the classroom with a look at a new medical high school being taught by Baylor Scott and White and Uplift Schools.

Federal regulators on Tuesday sent warning letters to several drugmakers, taking issue with patents on popular drugs for weight loss, diabetes, asthma and other respiratory conditions.

President Joe Biden often overstates what people who are eligible for the price cap for insulin paid previously.

A doctor who was once a good fit might not always meet the needs you have now. Here are some signs that it’s time to find a new one.

A drug company is recalling some of its ADHD and narcolepsy medication because the bottles may contain the wrong pills inside. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a notice published last week that Azurity Pharmaceuticals is recalling one lot of Zenzedi 30-milligram dextroamphetamine sulfate tablets. The move comes after a pharmacist in Nebraska found carbinoxamine maleate tablets,...

The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, where you can safely get rid of unused, unwanted or expired medications.

A growing number of states are offering dental care to low-income adults who once had to rely on charity or the emergency room to treat their tooth problems.

After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, concerns have arisen that a pathway into medicine may become much harder for students of color. Heightening the alarm: the medical field’s reckoning with longstanding health inequities.

A medical device the size of a dinner plate was left inside a woman’s abdomen for 18 months.

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital has plucked an 8-centimeter (3-inch) wriggling worm from the patient’s brain.

New York surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally.

Some private insurers are balking at paying for the first drug fully approved to slow mental decline in Alzheimer’s patients.